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Joel Dean
Joel Dean

Reputation: 2454

SimpleDateFormat not working when formatting this date

I am trying to format this date to output something like Mon Feb 12,2008

try {
  date = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse("02/12/2008").toString();
} catch (ParseException e) {
  Log.v(TAG,e.getMessage());
}
String dateParsed = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM/dd/yyyy").format(date);

I am getting an illegal argument exception.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 718

Answers (1)

Hovercraft Full Of Eels
Hovercraft Full Of Eels

Reputation: 285430

You're appear to be trying to set a Date = to a String:

date = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse("02/12/2008").toString();

and that will never work.

If the date variable is actually a String variable, then that won't work either, since you'll be trying to call SimpleDateFormat#format(...) with a String parameter, and it requires a Date object.

Instead be sure that the date variable is in fact a Date variable, parse the String into a Date object, assign it to date (and don't call toString() on it), and then format the date variable after you've got it.

Upvotes: 2

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